baltimore

Traces the story of the 1981-82 Dunbar Poets, one of the best high school basketball teams in United States history. Discusses coach Bob Wade, the politics and conditions of 1980s Baltimore, and the team's four players who went on to careers in the NBA.

Tess Monaghan is called to help Mark Rubin, a wealthy Orthodox Jew who grudingly gives important information, find his family that simply vanished. Tess is able to locate the runaway wife and family, moving furtively with an unremarkable stranger. An intricate web of betrayal and vengeance unravels as memory leads to rage to murder.--.

On May 17, 1968, a group of Catholic anti-war activists burst into a draft board in suburban Baltimore, stole hundreds of Selective Service records (which they called death certificates) and burned the documents in a fire fueled by homemade napalm. The Catonsville Nine became international news and were defended by radical attorney William Kuntsler in federal court. This book, written by a Catonsville native, offers the first comprehensive account of this key event in the protests against the Vietnam War.

In 1851, Elizabeth Parker, a free black child in Chester County, Pennsylvania, was bound and gagged, snatched from a local farm, and hurried off to a Baltimore slave pen. Two weeks later, her teenage sister, Rachel, was abducted from another Chester County farm. Because slave catchers could take fugitive slaves and free blacks across state lines to be sold, the border country of Pennsylvania/Maryland had become a dangerous place for most black people.

The author describes his life growing up in urban Baltimore with a former Black Panther for a father. He relates the challenges his father faced while trying to raise each of the family's seven children amidst the dangers of the streets.

Baltimore County narcotics officer Luther Ewing's life is turned upside-down when someone shoots him and he finds himself involved in a joint operation with sexy DEA agent Francesca Russo.

Every year on Edgar Allan Poe's birthday, a cloaked visitor leaves three roses and half a bottle of cognac on Poe's grave; it is a treasured tradition in Charm City, and Tess wants nothing to do with the man who wants to hire to uncover the visitor identity, but due to a bizarre series of events, Tess finds herself pulled into the case.

Traces one year in the life of fifteen-year-old DeAndre McCullough and other people who live near the corner of Fayette and Monroe in West Baltimore, Maryland, telling of their struggles to survive in the midst of the drug market that dominates their world, and revealing the rays of hope that shine out of the troubled environment.

Private investigator Tess Monaghan agrees to look into a series of unsolved homicides that date back over the past six years, but as she begins digging into the case, she uncovers a disturbing connection to the wealthy Baltimore benefactor who was instrumental in launching Tess's career.

Journalist Darryl Billups, having been promoted to an editing job, returns to the streets as a reporter and unwittingly places himself in the orbit of a serial killer when he sets out to investigate the murders of young African-American professionals in Baltimore.